Kayberg(at)AOL.COM
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 Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:34 am Post subject: 51% list |
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I want to just add that the "51% LIST" is just to make the feds/DAR's job easier. If they can just look on the official list and see that a kit is listed there, then they dont have to check the builders claims as to his contribution to the build as carefully. It is actually the 49% list. The factory is selling a kit that cannot be completed in any less than a 51% effort on the part of the builder.
Looking at it another way, even a kit that is 60% built by the factory and thus not on the list, can be MADE to be 51% compliant by modification. If you make a change, even it it is to remove something and then put it back, AND document it correctly, you get credit for "building" it. It is all up to your build claims and your inspector.
Remember, if another manufacturer/build center can do "two weeks to taxi" AND be approved by the Feds, it is all simply an exercise in semantics and FedSpeak.
Doug Koenigsberg
In a message dated 1/12/2009 9:21:05 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, info(at)flylightning.net writes:
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There is no drift away from the experimental version of the Lightning. It
still is and always will be sold as such well after SLSA certification is
complete. The FAA, as many know is revising the EAB rule and instead of
getting caught with our pants down mid summer with nothing to sell we
decided to turn or attention to the SLSA for the time being...you can still
by it as a E-LSA kit at that point too. Yes you could build yours to meet
the LSA rule as a EAB but you could not take a ELSA or SLSA and modify those
to exceed the rule. All of the kits are what could be considered a quick
build and so kit quality is the same, as far as the build assist is
concerned I cane only speak for us here in TN but I am sure my other dealers
would agree, that at one time or another we will most likely fly your
aircraft and would not want anything but the best quality we would expect in
our own aircraft under our butts. I have no problem with flights to SNF or
OSH non stop and those are nearly 4 hours. Hope this helps a bit, We want to
still provide a kit everyone can build and enjoy , and with the new EAB rule
looming it seemed like pursuing the LSA end for now was in the best interest
of the Lightning.
Nick Otterback
Arion Aircraft, LLC
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